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How to find meaning- and why it matters The pursuit of happiness and health is a popular endeavour, as the preponderance of self-help books would attest.
Yet it is also fraught. Despite ample advice from experts, individuals regularly engage in activities that may only have short-term benefit for well-being, or even backfire.
The search for the heart of well-being - that is, a nucleus from which other aspects of well-being and health might flow - has been the focus of decades of research. New findings recently reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences point towards an answer commonly overlooked: meaning in life.
Meaning in life: part of the well-being puzzle?
University College London's psychology professor Andrew Steptoe and senior research associate Daisy Fancourt analysed a sample of 7,304 UK residents aged 50+ drawn from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.
Survey respondents answered a range of questions assessing social, economic, health, and physical activity characteristics
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